Quotes About Restraint

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

I'm doing pretty good on my own, when I can control my tongue.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'

I'm tired of biting my tongue.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

I kind of have to bite my tongue sometimes with my lyrics.

My wife is a very clever woman. She knows when to say something and when to bite her tongue.

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Too much liberty corrupts us all.